...exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Common-sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep, we meet a bear, are frightened and run; the rest of the chapter I shall use the word object of emotion indifferently to mean one which is physically...

...emotion. Commonsense says, we lose our fortunes, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are freightened and run ; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and...to be defended says that this order of sequence is not correct, that the one mental state is not immediately induced by the other, that the bodily manifestations...

...exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the Einotioi' Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep ; we meet a bear, are frightened and run. The hypothesis here to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental...

...the order of time, the bodily expression. Thus, to use the great psychologist's owu illustrations, ' we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep ; we meet a bear, are frightened and run.' His theory reverses the order of the latter two statements, and makes the bodily effect follow directly...

...exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Common sense says, We lose our fortune, are sorry and weep ; we meet...immediately induced by the other, that the bodily manifestation must first be interposed between, and that the more rational statement is that we feel...

...expression has largely turned on the opinion advocated by Professor James : " Common - sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep ; we meet...that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the 1 The influence of feeling on cognition is carefully discussed by Hoffding, pp. 298-307. one mental...

...that of James and Lange will thereby be made clearer. Our view is the common-sense one that we see a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival are angry and strike. To which James objects, saying: Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would...

...perception of the exciting fact . . . our feeling of the same changes is the emotion. Common-sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry, and weep; we meet...we are insulted by a rival, are angry, and strike." l Professor James defends the thesis that th'is order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental...

...frightened, and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry, and strike." 1 Professor James defends the thesis that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental state is not induced immediately by the other, that the bodily manifestations must first be interposed between,...

...James vividly puts it, the emotions would not exist were the sensations lacking. " Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep ; we meet...angry and strike. The hypothesis here to be defended " — and it is to be noted that Professor James does not admit his statement to the realm of law —...